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WD Compatibility
Two questions: 1. I have two WD Elements and one WD My Book. I did a brief search for compatibile drives with the 104 and only came up with about three for WD. Is that right or was I looking i...
Hi LDG,
Check our ReadyNAS HCL and ensure you have the following selected in searching for all supported WD drives.
With regard to using your used hard drives, this might give you errors and the data from it will not be read by the ReadyNAS (so make sure it's been backed up or saved somewhere else). In order for you to use them, you need to reset the ReadyNAS to factory default with these disks are inserted. This forces any existing partitions from previous use of the disks to be deleted, so the ReadyNAS can use the disks.
Hope this helps!
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
BrianL2 wrote:Hi LDG,
Check our ReadyNAS HCL and ensure you have the following selected in searching for all supported WD drives.
With regard to using your used hard drives, this might give you errors and the data from it will not be read by the ReadyNAS (so make sure it's been backed up or saved somewhere else). In order for you to use them, you need to reset the ReadyNAS to factory default with these disks are inserted. This forces any existing partitions from previous use of the disks to be deleted, so the ReadyNAS can use the disks.
Hope this helps!
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
I addressed a detail I neglected to mention in my response to StephenB-my drives are currently incases/enclosures and I will be removing those to put them in the NAS (that probably answers why they don't show up on compatibility checks). However to your last point, I don't have this NAS yet, so the first drives that go in will be these. Should take care of needing to factory default, yes?
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